[NCLUG] usb keyboard

[Bob Proulx]

Matt wrote:
> I have a usb keyboard that works, used to work fine under rh 7.1, and
> even works through grub, but then gets ignored after my machine boots
> up. I'm using suse 9.1 and there's nothing like /dev/usbkeyboard.
> There are a bunch of /dev/usb/hiddev*. I'd try changing XF86Config but
> I don't know what to do.  Any ideas?

I am not running SuSE and so don't know what kernel they are using.  I
am running Debian myself.  But let me suggest checking for the usb
modules.

  modprobe usbkbd

USB keyboards work fine for me.  I know I have that module loaded.
You should not need to modify XF86Config for the keyboard.

Bob